The Coalition of the People's Representatives, or the Parliamentarians is a former

electoral alliance An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand ...

in Egypt; members of the alliance have created the

We Are the People Party The We Are the People Party, also translated as the We are Egypt Party, is a political party that is made up of 270 former members of parliament. The party was formed by the Coalition of the People's Representatives, which is composed of former ...

. The coalition was formed by former members of the National Democratic Party. Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, who ran as an independent and won during the 2000 parliamentary election and the 2005 parliamentary election, has stated that the coalition had 190 candidates who were willing to run in the next parliamentary election. The coalition intended to run with political parties that are non-religious. The coalition was considering whether to join with the

Conference Party The Conference Party ( ar, حزب المؤتمر المصري), or Congress Party, is a secularist political party in Egypt. It was created by the merger of five liberal and leftist parties, as well as remnants of the former NDP-regime. The Con ...

, the

Egyptian Popular Current The Egyptian Popular Current ( ') is a political movement, movement in Egypt, created after the Egyptian presidential election, 2012, 2012 presidential elections by former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi. The movement was formed on 21 Septemb ...

, the

Egyptian Nation Alliance The Egyptian Nation Alliance ( ar, تحالف الأمة المصرية; Tahalof El-Umma El-Masriya; also translated as ''Egyptian National Alliance'', ''Egyptian Patriotism Alliance'', ''Alliance for the Egyptian Nation'', ''Coalition of the Egy ...

, or the

Egyptian Patriotic Movement The Egyptian Patriotic Movement, or Egyptian National Movement ( ar, الحركة الوطنية المصرية) is a political party initiated by former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik and Mohamed Abu Hamed, former vice chairman of the Fr ...

as part of an electoral coalition. A document signed by prominent members of the Coalition of the People's Representatives emphasizes that no one should be excluded from the Egyptian political scene. The constitution that was passed in December 2012 has a ban on former members of the NDP from taking part in any "political activities"; former members of the NDP are identified as “those who had been on 25 January 2011 members in the general secretariat of the NDP or its policies committee or its political executive office or former members in the parliament (the two chambers) in the two parliamentary seasons prior to the revolution." A member of the National Salvation Front, Essam Shiha, has stated that the article only applies to a few hundred members, with roughly one thousand members banned out of the 2 million who were part of local councils or part of local NDP offices. A draft of the 2014 constitution removed the ban on members of the NDP.

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